Why Getting Credit for your Work is Now More Important than Ever By: Jesse Hodes, Vice President of Sales The Covid-19 outbreak has put many businesses across the U.S. at severe financial risk. In the healthcare space alone, hospitals are losing an estimated $50 billion a month, according to the American Hospital Association, with most hospitals reporting seeing between 40 to 70 percent fewer patients from late March to early May. These staggering losses have many healthcare leaders questi...

From Training Wheels to Freewheeling I was six years old when I got a shiny pink bike for Christmas -- with training wheels. I rode my bike around our driveway for hours each day. After a few weeks, my father told me he was taking off the training wheels. I felt both excited and terrified. With training wheels, I had learned how to pedal and use the break, both of which are useless without balance. Forty-five minutes, three scrapes, and four bruises later, I rode a bike solo for the first tim...

A strange chain of events showed me how different departments view information. I was recently working with a client and showing them issues they had in their build of Millennium™ PharmNet application. These are some of the normal things reviewed: QCF issues – when converting doses based on the units of measure outlined by CMS, you need to use the Quantity Calculation Factor to convert to the correct measurements (e.g. 1 mg per 1 ml = 1 QCF). HCPCS inconsistencies ...

Are your clinical leaders involved in the financial processes of your organization? Did you know organizations with disconnected clinical and finance teams can result in thousands or even millions of dollars in missing charges?